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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[c1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
122p illus
Language
English
Description
A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[c1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
146p illus map
Language
English
Description
A collection of fictional letters recreates the life and times of Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young slave who escaped to freedom in the 1840s and who became a published author and abolitionist
6) Sounder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The boy knows that times are tough for his family. Every night, his father goes out hunting with their great coon dog, Sounder, to try to put food on the table. But even with the little they bring back, there is still never enough for the family to eat.
When the boy awakens one morning to a sweet-smelling ham on the table, it seems like a blessing. But soon, the sheriff and his deputies come to the house and take the boy’s father away in handcuffs....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis has been a resounding moral voice in the quest for equality for more than 50 years. In March, he shares his memories of the Civil Rights Movement, reliving the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from a past of clenched fists into a future of outstretched hands.